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From forum discussion: " Its development was prompted by the Common Lisp and Scheme tutorials that contrast syntactic macros with C preprocessor macros, and
by zengid 10y ago
From forum discussion:
" Its
development was prompted by the Common Lisp and Scheme tutorials that
contrast syntactic macros with C preprocessor macros, and wanting to
see whether syntactic macros could work in a lower-level language. " -Tom Harrison [1]
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/dale-lang/h73oNq5U6MQ/_aS_pNB9G7cJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/dale-lang/h73oNq5U6MQ/...
- hermitdev 10y agoThanks for posting this. I had not perused the forums. This definitely sheds more light on what I was originally asking than just reading the readme.
- zengid 10y agoYou're welcome; I had to dig to find it. I, like you, would have preferred to see the motivation in the top-level documentation. It helps so much to see the core concerns that an abstraction is built upon, especially something as tangled and complex as a high-programming language.